This solution tackles the question of legal juristiction in a multi-layered, community based social structure.

How can you establish human rights on a global level while allowing individual communities to determine their own laws for food standards or noise levels?

Within the structure of multi-layer democracy (http://www.standardsoflife.com/representation) there needs to be a way of handling the differences between different consitituencies within a layer and between layers. Variable Law is a legal construct that is best included in a constitution (http://www.standardsoflife.com/constitutional+Template) and provides for the mechanism to handle differences within a coherent mutli-layered political structure.

 

This is a solution looking for a problem until we have devolved power down from nationstates, but it does help address the objection that we cannot devolve power down to communities because it will break gains made in establishing common laws.

 

The primary action needed to elect representatives who support the Standards of LIFE.

The peaceful co-existence of peoples and communities with different standards in a tapestry of regions, states and transterritories across the globe.

While initial exposure to the concept of variable law often elicits a euphoria, this is often quickly followed by an uneasiness as the ramifications of a multitude of variations spread across the landscape confronts our natural sense of simple passage.Never fear!There are responsibilities and requirements that come with a desire to retain and practice any aspect of law within any constituency and these create a natural tendency toward unification (without blunting individuality).
Furthermore, when you consider that law and taxes are inextricably bound together you gain a further glimpse of what will be a natural propensity to conglomerate aspects of law at reasonable and practical levels.
In understanding the likely practice of Variable Law, it is instructive to start by studying the implications at a Community level. It is incumbent on the proponents of a law that they also possess the means necessary to police and prosecute that law. That means having an enforcement capability and the infrastructure necessary to provide for the prosecution and defense of accused violators. This is not an insignificant commitment of resources for any individual community and if the enforcement is only effective with the collaboration and participation of neighboring communities, that adds weight to the desirability of promoting that aspect up to a higher level that can bring greater and wider resources to bear.